The UIRR, representing the combined transport sector expressed regret for the intention expressed on Tuesday by the College of European Commissioners, adopting its for 2026, to withdraw the proposed amendment to the Combined Transport Directive, which was submitted to end of 2023 as part of the "Greening Freight" package Transport" ( of 7 November 2023). Complaining that the European Commission has not conducted any kind of public consultation on this intention, the UIRR highlighted that the Parliament's study on combined transport, drawn up at the request of the rapporteur Flavio Tosi, was completed only a week ago and that the Parliament was about to start work on the proposed amendment using this study.

Emphasizing that combined transport is the solution to integrate rail freight transport and transport navigable in European supply chains and the engine growth in rail freight transport, the UIRR recalled whereas today the combined transport sector is in a difficult situation due to insufficient performance of railway infrastructure, the lack of terminal capacities in different regions of Europe and the absence of a minimum service guarantee, and for the shortcomings of digitization. In addition, the association has noted that, if the current difficulties and challenges do not could be solved by themselves with an amendment to the Directive on combined transport or the Weights and Dimensions Directive, however, intermodal freight transport, as a mode of transport transport in its own right, requires legislation picture.